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Section II - Leadership Traits
Activity #3
Note!! The Kiersy Temperament sorter referred to in the text has been
replaced with the Myers-Briggs.
Myers Briggs
The interpretation provided after the test is completed is acceptable for a general understanding.
Descriptions of each of the 16 types are available at:
http://www.typelogic.com
Students who would like to explore their Myers-Briggs results in more depth will find about anything they are curious about in the following two books which have been around for some time and are most likely in your library. They are quite inexpensive on Amazon.
Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates
Type Talk by Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen
If you have assigned your students to teams (cases later in this site are quite suitable for team assignments) the following exercise is useful for members learning a bit about their
colleagues and to stimulate some thinking about the meaning for leaders.
- After they have taken the test and familiarized themselves with the meaning of their scores assign the team a short paper that discusses the implications of the scores for a person who (theoretically) is about to be named the leader of their team. It is important here to stress the pattern of the scores and not to dwell on who scored what. This assignment can be enriched by adding the results of the Big 5 personality test to the mix.
- Big 5: a number of links for additional information are provided at the bottom of the results page.
Relevant Readings::
- Personal Factors Associated with Leadership
- Leadership: Do Traits Matter?
Activity #5
In Leadership Run Amok the authors ask the reader to do a self-assessment of their need to achieve. At best, this is difficult. The normal way of measuring the need to achieve is
the TAT test which is not possible to do in this medium. However, individuals with a high need to achieve usually score fairly high on Type A and medium to strong internal
locus of control. These two assessments are offered for their explicit use as well as an
indirect path to assessing the need to achieve.
Locus of Control
Type A/B
Relevant Readings:
- Leadership Run Amok
- Personal Factors Associated with Leadership
- Leadership: Do Traits Matter?
Activity #9
Emotional Intelligence
Relevant Reading:
- Relevant Reading: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
Activity #12
Narcissistic Leaders
Relevant Readings:
- The Leadership Mystique
- Narcissistic Leaders: The Incredible Pros, The Inevitable Cons
Activity #14
Motivation to Lead
- The test:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_01.htm
An interesting class discussion is the differences and similarities between the motivation to manage and the motivation to lead. While this test is not in the student section of the website you may want to reproduce it.
Motivation to Manage
- Interpretation: Students should add up their responses to arrive a total.
- 6-18 = Low motivation to manage
- 19-29 = moderate motivation to manage
- >30 = high motivation to manage
Relevant Readings:
- Personal Factors Associated with Leadership
- Leadership: Do Traits Matter?
- Managers and Leaders: Are they Different?
- The Leadership Mystique
Case Study One
Case Study Two
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